You mean that people didn't pretend to be experts about everything back then?

Well, McKellen was knighted, wasn't he?

Well, he failed, cause I always hated Elijah Wood, and it colored how I watched LOTR. My personal tastes aside, he was fairly well known at the time.

Wait, wait, wait…. Peter Jackson rejected David Fucking Bowie?

I always liked Blood Sugar Sex Magik era RHCP… but this made me laugh!

Weird… didn't Cobain even say "this is a David Bowie song" before or after they played it?

To each his own… but I see a lot of direct sound and style similarities in Nirvana (especially In Utero) to early Bowie… In Pearl Jam, it's more of an abstract thing… their desire to constantly shift between genres and not stay in the arena-rock style of their debut album.

Seconded.

Awesome read… thank you!

As a teen in the late 90's, every so often, I'd hear about how Bowie's influence stretched to 'grunge' like Nirvana and Pearl Jam… and I never really got it, as I only knew a few Bowie tunes that were still played on the radio, basically Space Oddity.

Just finally saw this a few weeks ago… really happy you took the time to write about it.

I see your list of politicians is quite one-sided. Very subtle.

"We joke about movies all being aimed at 12-year old boys, but the truth
is that movies exploded when boys stopped growing up. If 35 year old
men were not still watching 12-year old boy movies repeatedly, the movie
business would look very different today, too."

Thought the same thing… My cd buying heyday was the 90's, and they were roughly $9.99-12.99.

Totally the same thing, well done.

It boggles the mind that anybody would watch those circle-jerk post-shows.

I felt that Lych saved that episode. Zach stole my thunder by stating how there is an edge to his kindness, like the rage is boiling just underneath… and his character is what hooked me.

Really well done. Enjoyed the hell out of it.

Kuffs is the best 90's movie, period.

Agreed that the themes are waaaaay too hammy, yet somehow the show maintains enough strength thru its execution to keep it interesting.